Christmas Quilt-A-Long 2: September Morning

I'm all set up for today's Christmas Quilt-a-long.  I raced ahead and all month long I've been working on our Scatty Stars Christmas Quilt-a-long Block of the Month Quilt and finished it up on Thursday.  What do you think?  I went with a narrow folded border and then a wider border that I quilted a row of stars all the way around, which I thought turned out really nice and I wondered why I hadn't seen borders quilted this way before.  Then I got stuck and didn't know where to go with it so I stewed for a while and eventually came up with flowers and swirls.  The flowers were DD's idea, she wanted Zinnias, so I did those as well as daisies and orchids.  The orchids are fun in the challenge they present.  Each time I form one I stop and think about the shape as I move through the petals.  Flowers are organic so there is no right and wrong way to make them and I found little dropping petals actually made them look better.

When Sue first posted about the BOM, I went to my fabrics and pulled out stuff that matched, I just kept going through what I had and trying to match it to her pattern requirements.  That's how I ended up with this theme of Flannel and Novelty Prints.  I actually had so much fabric leftover I made it reversible.  Hey I said I've been working on it all month, what did you think I'd been up to?
I went with the dark pink binding and I really like it.  There is something so wonderful that happens as you stitch a binding on.  It's as though even the quilt knows it's nearly finished.  As a bonus for finishing Scatty Stars my quilting table is nice and clear so I'm don't have a mess to try and photograph away from.

Does anyone remember this project?  I prepped it all yesterday.  This is my Art for Your Bed Quilt.  It is the Reverse applique bonus from my Hawaiian Ocean Applique quilt and I'll even admit I haven't worked on it since May.  It became my Christmas Quilt-a-long project but then I changed where I kept my active projects and it was out of sight and couldn't inspire me, but I've relocated it and am ready to get back sewing.  As I said I prepped it all yesterday by re-ironing and then cutting all of my rustic brown colored batik and squaring them up.  Now I just need to gab a bottle of water for the iron and I can get started fusing!  Happy Sewing Today.